Nilópolis
Nilópolis is a municipality in Brazil, located in the Rio de Janeiro state's southwestern region, bordering São João de Meriti, Mesquita and Rio de Janeiro.
Nilópolis is a municipality in Brazil, located in the Rio de Janeiro state's southwestern region, bordering São João de Meriti, Mesquita and Rio de Janeiro. It is the smallest municipality in Rio de Janeiro state, with a total area of 19.39 km2. The population of 162,693 inhabitants living in an area of 9 km2 and the remaining area corresponds to the Gericinó's Natural Park. Officially, the population density exceeds 8,120 inhabitants/km2, but if calculated just 9 km2 occupied, it becomes the most densely populated city in Brazil with more than 17.400 inhabitants/km2. Currently, São João de Meriti has the highest population density, with 12,897 inhabitants/km2.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Área de Proteção Ambiental de Gericinó-Mendanha
- 02Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
Vila Olímpica de Nilópolis (Nilópolis Olympic Village).
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Things to do
G.R.E.S. Beija-Flor de Nilópolis - Rua Pracinha Wallace Paes Leme, 1025 - Centro, Nilópolis. - One of the two main samba schools of Baixada Fluminense, the other being the G.R.E.S Acadêmicos do Grande Rio, in Duque de Caxias. Parque Natural Municipal do Gericinó - Rua Antônio João Mendonça, s/n - Centro, Nilópolis. - A municipal park to the west of the urban area of Nilópolis.
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Where to eat
Taberna do Peixe - Avenida Getúlio Vargas, 1225 - Centro, Nilópolis.
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Getting to Nilópolis
- Airports
- Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 17 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 28 km
- São Paulo → Nilópolis339 km · quickest by air, 4h 58m · R$370–570
- Belo Horizonte → Nilópolis326 km · quickest by air, 5h 30m · R$380–580
- Campinas → Nilópolis374 km · quickest by air, 4h 48m · R$360–560
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Nilópolis
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nilópolis. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in]] Ferries (barcas) connect neighbouring Niterói to Rio de Janeiro and arrive at Praça XV (see down), in the city centre.
- Get aroundAmong the public transportation modes, there is subway, heavy rail, light rail, bus rapid transit, local buses, microbuses, cable cars and ferry boats.
- Get aroundFerry boats depart from Santa Teresa Tram, Centro Corcovado Rack Railway, Zona Sul Sugarloaf Cable Car (Zona Sul) Buses are still the cheapest and most convenient way to get around the South Zone (Zona Sul) of the city due to the high number and frequency of lines running through the area.
- Get aroundExcept for minibuses, buses now have two doors: passengers get in through the front door and get off through the back (it was otherwise until 2001–2002).
- Get aroundBuses 511 (Ataulfo de Paiva) and 512 (Bartholomeu Mitre) are also popular as they take you to Urca for the station to take the cable car up the Sugarloaf mountain.
From Wikivoyage: Rio de Janeiro, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Nilópolis
Nilópolis is 4 km from São João de Meriti, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.